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aa-jv
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English.
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>release your own code using it under GPL as well Yes this is what I'm doing - although there are a lot of ways GPL'ed software can nevertheless still be used to generate revenue .. >For that I'd look for a more communi
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I haven't really started using it, but I'd like to. I have a PDF file of every web page I've ever read/found interesting since the last century. This collection of about 70,000 files turns out to be a massive database o
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4y ago
Yes, I have my eyes on that mission. Only 6 short, uneventful years to go ..
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aa-jv
4y ago
Harvesting the interstellar medium? Transfer ships from Earth? Some random comet redirected to the area? I dunno, let science work it out. I just wanna dream.
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4y ago
I'd wager its just a matter of time until someone gloms a front-end to Mastodon that will do all the transcoding/transfer magic required to produce the same functionality. Lets see ..
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4y ago
I heard these same arguments about the Linux kernel, back in the days before it came along and ate everyones' lunch. This app can be built, quite easily, by anyone motivated to do so. Just like the kernel, just like a distribution ven
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I'm just waiting for someone to make an open-source TikTok analog that can just replace the functionality with a platform not controlled by a single party .. we still have that dream right, cryptonerds? Seems like the best solution to
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4y ago
I hope I live long enough to see the mission to 16 Psyche, a massive mostly-metal asteroid, which has enough resources (theoretically) to propel humanity into a space-based species. Seriously. I could imagine we send 3d printers to 16 Psyc
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The point is: > documenting police abuses. Whats not to understand? The police do not do a good job of policing themselves. Citizens have a responsibility to ensure their police forces do not become tyrants. >It’s pointless to do all
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Subscribe to this channel and you can add your own attention to the effort: https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit
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>Now how about some apologies for your tone? Actually its your tone-policing that is so disruptive to the conversation - you seem to have issues with peoples' statements given confidently - but fortunately there have been many more
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That's a fair point, and I guess its weighed in my balance by the fact that I'm contributing under the GPL but also doing commercial work with it (plugins) as well, so for me its quite a win-win situation. I have no problems cont
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4y ago
Another vote for the Audio Programmer Discord - this is such an amazing community of audio nerds, you'll find your comfort zone pretty fast, I bet.
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JUCE: http://juce.com/ Tracktion: http://tracktion.com/ Both very powerful audio frameworks - JUCE does plugins and audio drivers and low-level DSP, oh my - and Tracktion does all the stuff a DAW needs, on
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One thing I really like doing, is commenting my bash commands. Its not an obvious thing, but it really helps .. $ some_cmd | another_cmd -d doing -some complex -thing # somecmd to do something complex Some time later, I don't
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I'm surprised to see a complete lack of application of the OSI model to answering this question. Systems programming is what happens when you apply the OSI model to the interconnections required for you to have a happy user, using yo
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4y ago
I've also transplanted around the world a bit in different tech markets, albeit I don't have as much desire to return to the California madness, just for the paycheck. Life quality in Europe is great - sure, you maybe don't g
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4y ago
Information needs to start having a "Free of AI-generated content" seal of approval, akin to the GMO battle being fought elsewhere. I mean, we already process high fructose digitally-altered content, that ship has sailed - but we
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I guess it depends what you're selling: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/24/war-is-great-fo...
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>The West is definitely not in the business of warmongering. You are honestly making this statement without deceipt? The West is in the warmongering business.
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This is going to be hell once a generation has had its ways with it.
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I wrote a Fall Detector app once. When the user is wearing the device (dedicated Android phone), a 'chain' of protection is rendered (3D) which indicates the state of the Fall Detection algorithm. When the algorithm detects a fal
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I wrote a Fall Detector app for Android, ten years ago. When a fall was detected the sample played: "A fall has been detected" When the caretaker was alerted: "The caretaker has been alerted" When the caretaker acknowled
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I've had it work effectively in the past. I once had the guy waiting for 10 minutes while I found my 'password', which he was eager to have me read to him over the phone. You can imagine what it was. :) His response: "
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The likeability of the CEO of Pfizer or Boeing or Raytheon doesn't seem to bother the ethics of their investors .. in this case its more that Musk is just too successful, and overt about it. I think that's what really pisses pe
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"TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST AND NEVER CONTACT ME AGAIN." - burn this into your brain and state it as quickly as you can next time you get one of those "Mr. AA-JV, I'm calling to tell you about a worrying situation with your P
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I lived in one of those hanging apartments depicted in the postcards, up there in Beachwood Canyon, for a period during the 80's and early 90's .. in my particular place, it was old and decrepit and run down, but the 'develop
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There should be more GUI's for the command line tools, imho. Imagine if we could get a parsable json from the cmd line tools that allows for a standard UI to be built ..
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Neat. Would love to know more about how you're using Lua in that context ..
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